Chapters in edited volumes

  • ‘Indonesia: Textiles’ in Encyclopaedia of Islam. Third Edition. November 2023. Also published online http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3; 2022.

  • Speaking with the gods and the ancestors.’ 2021. In Capelo et al. Traveller’s Eye. Casa Ásia – Coleção Fracisco Capelo. Scala Art Publishers, Inc.

  • 'Muara Jambi: the journey towards world heritage listing.' In King, V.T. (ed.) (2016). UNESCO in Southeast Asia: World heritage sites in comparative perspective. Copenhagen: Nias Press. pp. 237-257.

  • 'Japanese Collections at the Horniman Museum: a chronological overview' (2015) in Kreiner, Joseph (ed.) 2015. Japanese Collections in European Museums III. Bonn: Bier’sche Verlagsanstalt. pp. 57-69.

  • 'Objets de la Société des Missions de l’Eglise Anglicane au Horniman Museum and Gardens, Londres’ in Ducor, Jérôme and Christian Delécraz (eds) (2015) Le bouddhisme de Madame Butterfly: le japonisme bouddhique. Musee d’ethnographie de Genève.

  • ‘The Batik Altar Cloths of Java: designs and derivations’ in Lee, Peter et al. (2015) Auspicious Designs: Batik for Peranakan Altars. Singapore: Asian Civilisations Museum. pp. 34-53.

  • ‘Japanese Buddhist Material in the Horniman Museum and its impact on perceptions of Japan in London’ in Steineck, T.I.M, Kreiner, J. and Raji C. Steineck (eds) (2013) Japanese Collections in European Museums IV. Bonn: Bier’sche Verlagsanstalt. pp. 111-121.

  • ‘The Silk Batiks of Java’ in Kopania, Izabela (ed.) (2012) South-East Asia Studies in Art, Cultural Heritage and Artistic Relations with Europe. Warsaw: Polish Institute of World Art Studies & Tako Publishing House. pp. 69-76.

  • ‘Guardians, ancestors and other spirits: squatting figures of the Austronesian world’ in P. Benitez-Johannot (ed.) (2011) Paths of Origins: the Austronesian Heritage. ArtPostAsia: Singapore. pp. 78-87.

  • (with Wahyu Ernawati) ‘Trade and Sumatran textiles’ in Francine Brinkgreve and Retno Sulistianingsih (eds) (2009) Sumatra: Crossroads of Cultures. Leiden: KITLV Press. pp.153-169.

  • ‘House form and ethnic identity: tradition and variation in house style in Jambi Province’, in R. Schefold et al (eds) (2008) Indonesian houses Volume 2 Survey of vernacular architecture in western Indonesia. Leiden: KITLV Press. pp.343-362.

  • ‘Food and the Family: Assimilation in a Malay village’ (2007) in Janowski, M and F. Kerlogue (eds) Kinship and Food in Southeast Asia. Copenhagen: Nias Press. pp.54-70.

  • ‘Textiles of Jambi (Sumatra) and the Indian Ocean Trade’ in Ruth Barnes (ed.) (2005) Textiles in Indian Ocean Societies. Routledge/Curzon. pp.130-149.  

  • ‘Living Objects, Changing Worlds’ in F.Kerlogue (ed) (2004) Performing Objects: museums, material culture and performance in Southeast Asia. Horniman Museum. pp.vii-xiv.

  • ‘Museums and the Keris: power, alliance and the exchange of gifts’ in Anna Kalström & Anna Källén (eds) (2003) Fishbones and Glittering Emblems: Southeast Asian Archaeology 2002. Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. pp. 435-443. 

  • ‘Cultural change and the Jambi Seberang house’ in Reimar Schefold, Peter J.M. Nas and Gaudenz Domenig (eds) (2003) Indonesian Houses: Tradition and Transformation in vernacular Architecture.  Leiden: KITLV Press. pp. 177-194.

  • ‘New Dimensions in the Study of Indonesian Batik’ in Heidi Munan (ed.) (2003) World Eco-Fiber & Textile Forum 2003 Hand-Painted, Printed and Decorated Textiles. Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. pp. 31-41.

  • ‘Meanings and metaphors in the Jambi House’ in Howell, S. and Sparkes, S. (2002) The House in Southeast Asia: a changing social, economic and political domain. NIAS-Curzon Press pp. 53-66.

  • ‘Islamic talismans: the calligraphy batiks’ in Itie van Hout (ed.) (2001) Batik Drawn in Wax Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute. pp.124-135.

  • ‘Flowers, fruits and fragrance: the batiks of Jambi’ in Itie van Hout (ed.) (2001) Batik Drawn in Wax. Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute. pp.78-89.

  • ‘The batik of Madura’ in Itie van Hout (ed.) (2001) Batik Drawn in Wax. Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute. pp. 66-77.

  • ‘The classical batiks of Jambi’ in Hitchcock, M. (ed.) (2000) Building on Batik: The Globalization of a Craft Community. Aldershot: Ashgate Press. pp.75-86.

  • ‘Batik: The Cloth of Kings’ in Barley, N (ed.) (1998) The Golden Sword.  London: British Museum Press pp. 30-35.

Encyclopaedia entries

  • ‘Jambi Malays’ in Ooi Keat Gin (ed.)  (2004) Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopaedia From Angkor Wat to East Timor, 3 vols. Santa Barbara, Denver, Oxford: ABC-CLIO.

  • ‘Textiles’ in Ooi Keat Gin (ed.)  (2004) Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopaedia From Angkor Wat to East Timor, 3 vols. Santa Barbara, Denver, Oxford: ABC-CLIO.

  • ‘Women in Southeast Asia’ in Levinson, David and Karen Christensen, et al., (eds) (2002) Encyclopaedia of Modern Asia, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

  • ‘Marriage and Family in Mainland Southeast Asia’ in Levinson, David and Karen Christensen, et al., (eds) (2002) Encyclopaedia of Modern Asia, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

  • ‘Marriage and family in Insular Southeast Asia’ in Levinson, David and Karen Christensen, et al., (eds) (2002) Encyclopaedia of Modern Asia, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.